Archive for April, 2008


Wow…over 700 RSS subscribers!

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Someone decided to move the count of how many feed subscribers this website has from counting instead of 30 days to 365 days. Turns out Leechon actually has over 700 feed subscribers! MashaAllah.

All praise is due to Allah-swt alone. How about this.

I have an idea! If you read this…comment below with: (1) State at least one thing you have benefited from this website and (2) state at least two things you would like to see improve!

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The Singularity of You…(Tube?)

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This post is in reference to NewTeeVee’s post “YouTube Up 32% Year-over-Year”, The article basically states that according to hitwise, YouTube has 73.18% viewership of online video in the month of March 2008 as opposed to 55.28% in March 2007.

Al Ries (legendary marketing guru) in his book title The 11 Immutable Laws of Internet Branding talks about The Law of Singularity. In summary, the internet is like a political race. Second place is no place. There is no room for number-two brands on the internet. Today when you say “internet video” automatically “YouTube comes to mind.

How do you becomes #1 brand and leader in your category online? For starters…you have to tell what your category is. Its always a good idea to tell your market what exactly should come to mind when they see your name/brand.

What does this have to do with you?

ONEFor all those of you who have websites, blogs, videos, or whatever online, how are you trying to position yourself in your viewers eyes that is unique, different , and/or outstanding from the others out there?

To many times we’ve seen a blog out there about one’s life, rants, or simply reflections. What’s so great and different about your content and material that one should read it? You know the answer? Great! Tell the viewers when they see your stuff.

For all of you that have dawah projects out there, this concept applies to you to.

TWOPublish your videos on YouTube and don’t worry about publishing anywhere else unless you’re going to search engine optimization for your website…then you may want to publish on all of the video sharing services online with a link coming back to your website. If you want to build an audience then publish content regularly and request people to subscribe to your channel. The more subscribers you have to your channel, the greater your influence will be and the more people will watch your videos.

What if you publish content that is more than 10 mins?

There are two ways of going about this. Get someone who has an older account on YouTube and has the ability to publish videos over 10 mins to publish your videos on their channel for you, or you canpublish on another video service (I recommend Blip.tv)…or…You can do both! (That’s what I’m doing)

Also, I would recommend you publish content on Blip.tv along with YouTube because of the fact that you can get people to subscribe to you via iTunes. ipods are a big market. Take advantage of it!

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No longer writing…

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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmitullaih wa barakatuh,

Alhamdulillah, It’s been a fun experience being a contributer to the blog. However, I have a lot of projects going (and not to mention a lot of papers to write). So at least temporarily I don’t think I can commit to being a contributer. Jazak Allah khair br. Belal for the opportunity. And InshaAllah I hope that you all will keep me in your Dua and you inshaAllah will be in mine!

Barak Allahu feekom,

wassalam,

Shirien

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Keep Order by Creating a Playlist

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Keeping series in order can be a task in and of itself. Finding certain videos in a particular series can be more than a few clicks away. Its a good idea to create a playlist of different videos and share that play list with other people so they can embed the entire series on their websites and blogs, making it easier on the viewers to find what they are looking for.

Below are links to play lists I’ve created for the following series:

Go ahead and embed them on your websites and share it with other people.

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A Little Crew Worth A Lot of Attention

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What would life be like without little helpers?

The other day Aisha (white hijab) came home from school saying, “One of my friends at school came up to me and said, “Ordinatory people are looosers!”…

Everywhere I go, almost everyone I know greets me with “I saw your video!” It’s amazing how far these videos have gotten. Ever since the release of the lead up videos for the Message Mastery program people have consistently told me how they love my little sisters and how cute they are. I just have one request from you all…

…say “MashaAllah :D

It means the world to me. May Allah-swt preserve my little sisters, enable them to effectively represent and stand up for the deen of Islam, and bestow His mercy upon them. Ameen.

 

You know what this is exacly what i’ve been dreaming about, how to make cool videos for dawah purposes and i’m so exited! – Alima

 

The past couple weeks have been BUSY! I’m literally been spending three days out of the week tirelessly not sleeping…working on this program and making it the best possible experience that it can be…all while juggling work, school, family, and life together!

Ever since people started posting and emailing me their feedback and what not regarding the program, the motivation to make it even better is ever increasing.

 

Thank you so much for this! Truly inspiring stuff for a 16 year old filmmaker like me. If someone like you who knew nothing when you were my age can do so much, it really is encouraging! - Kashif

 

Also, I never realized that posting videos online could get me so much du’aa. For all those who have made du’aa for me, may Allah-swt grant you that and much more!

 

There are probably less than a handful of people in the Muslim world that can single-handedly match the quality of videos that Belal produces. For any Muslim who is multimedia inclined… this MessageMastery is looking to surpass anything he has done before! — May Allah grant us success!

-Safi (http://www.fitnessformuslims.com)

 

Today I released the conference call video recording that I had with “Baba Ali” from Ummah Films.

In this conference call you’ll hear Ali talk about how Ummah Films began and where he is today. He also tells the stories of how he was approached to do a reality TV Show, interviewed with newspapers like the New York Times, USA Today and other major papers. Ali then talks about the movie he is about to produce. Also, be sure to stay tuned for the question and answer session at the end. One of the questions threw us a little back, you’ll see what I mean :D

 

This is just what i have been waiting for.

- Mehboob

 

To listen in on the recorded conference call video titled “Baba Without a Crew” click the link below:
http://messagemastery.com/long-awaited-release-of-baba-without-a-crew-surprise-deal-11.htm

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